Surely it's not a surprise to anyone here that the US is more conservative economically and socially than western Europe.  (I guess the Europeans would say Americans are liberal economically, Americans say conservative.)  Nor is it a surprise that Americans are more religious/spiritual than western Europe?  At the core, these are really big differences.

Now, people have always constructed myths about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They arrange their relationships to others according to their faith, their idea of normal man, et c. Inevitably, these creative ideas, these myths, escape the power of those who ideated them and assume a power of their own. In short order, creators bow down before that which they have created, and the more ingenuous of them attempt to wield such power over other men.

So since people have always constructed these myths, what would the German, or French, 5 myths be?  There was the odd comment on a country or two in the thread, but is there an installment coming on a European country, here at the European Tribune?